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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seattle private schools are increasingly hard to get into because of changes with not only SPS but also Eastside school districts.

My kids’ kindergarten class had ten applicants for one seat. [/quote]

Evergreen, UCDS, SCDS or Bush? [/quote]

Evergreen.  Interestingly all the private schools in Seattle are rather mediocre, with exception of Lakeside although I think it’s becoming more mediocre with the new HOS and his DEI focus.  All these schools take some of the smartest and affluent population of kids (some like SCDS and Evergreen with high IQ test cut offs) and don’t do much with them. These are kids whose parents went to Ivies and MIT and after 13 years of private school, a majority of them could barely muster UW.

Until the recent SPS changes to advanced learning, it was actually the public schools that had some of the most accelerated curriculum and that is still true on the Eastside. [/quote]

So true about private schools in the Seattle area, especially Lakeside. When we moved to Seattle 15 years ago, I was startled by the private school culture (or lack thereof). Even the best private schools are more mediocre than my suburban school district back east, and none of them hold a candle to a 2nd-tier private on the east coast. Seattle was a small city for many years and has a very different culture of philanthropy and education than other cities. Its schools represent where the city was in 1985 and people are strangely accepting and even ignorant about how K-12 education is managed in the area. My theory is that the international transplants don't have sufficient experience in the US school system to know what they're missing, a lot of people are crunchy or libertarian and don't really want good schools, and the combination of no state income taxes and the impact of the McCleary act in WA state has made schools worse, not better.[/quote]

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